The short is yes. However, “newbies” must be careful as to which investment groups they choose to join. These groups should be about networking, leveraging people and growing investors. Anything else should make you skeptical as to what their motives truly are. Worse case scenario, you get taken for a few hundred bucks and you waste your time. Best case scenario, you meet successful business owners who show you how to grow your business in your area. Below is a short list of positives offered by a successful Real Estate Invesment Group. Look for some of the same attributes of any club you are researching to join.
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Access to monthly meetings. Every dues-paying member gets a “free pass” to attend our regular monthly meetings without paying any additional admission fees. The general public pays $20 per meeting (except first time free).
- Monthly Marketing Session. This is a segment of our monthly meetings that provides an opportunity for those present to present their individual deals, buy, sell, and trade. If you have a property to sell or a deal to make, this is the place to be! (This is especially awesome…)
- Monthly Speakers. We have been continually bringing our members the very best and highest quality educational speakers around. Always timely and directly related to your real estate business, topics will range from education on upper-level investment strategies to taxation issues to asset protection, property management and even how to get started in the business – and everything in between!
- Monthly Newsletter. This is our highly-informative, monthly publication with important articles, calendar events, sponsor specials and opportunities presented FREE to our members. This publication comes FREE and ONLY to our members every month for the duration of their membership.
- Seminars & Workshops. Since continued education at all levels is so vital in this business, from time to time we will feature special seminars and workshops in addition to our regular monthly meetings. Ranging from 1/2-day seminars to weekend boot-camps, these events are highly-educational and are taught by both local and nationally renowned experts. Previous seminars have been taught by such people as Vena Jones Cox, Albert Aiello, John Hyre, Jeffrey Taylor (Mr. Landlord.com), Louis Brown, Robyn Thompson, etc.
- SPECIAL DISCOUNTS to places like:
- Sherwin Williams Paint (20% up to 38% off paint & related products)
- Office Depot (Discounts of up to 40% on office supplies are available through our partnership with Office Depot!)
- Airborne Express (25% off Express Shipping Rates)
- Dearborn Publishers (up to 40% off real estate investment-related publications)
- Maintenance Warehouse (additional savings of approximately 14%)
- Opportunities… to network, brainstorm and share ideas with your peers; to grow & make deals happen that may never have occurred otherwise. Come & learn how other investors turn problems into opportunities.
- Full Website access… to the “members only” area of their website. Here’s a little of what you can expect in the “members-only” section:
- Newsletter Archive. We have a downloadable copy of every newsletter we’ve ever produced since 2001 available for our members to download for FREE!
- Members’ Listserv / Discussion Forum. This is an online forum with a listserv function tied in. Mainly intended to help facilitate ongoing discussions about relevant topics between meeting, this is an incredibly dynamic way to stay connected with other members. Have a question? Email all the other members and ask!
- Benefits section. You can learn precisely how to utilize and benefit from all member benefits;
- Members’ Resources. This is an area that provides you with special access to important information and highly-informative materials, like notes from speaker presentations, articles, area-specific landlord checklists, contracts & paperwork, etc.
- Buying Power. As we grow, it is our intent to entitle YOU to memberships in credit unions, travel clubs, telephone long distance carriers, and warehouse merchants.
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